Glace Bay

Glace Bay is a community located in northern Nova Scotia, Canada, next to Cape Breton. The bay was settled by the French during the 1720s with the goal of supplying the fortress of Louisbourg with coal, and it would rise to become a major coal mining town in the region, serving in this capacity until its decline in the 1990s, when fishing became the new major industry. In 1785, Glace Bay was founded as a community, and it was incorporated as a city in 1901 before being dissolved on 1 August 1995. In 2011, the bay had a population of 19,076 people.